Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Knockdoebeg West, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockdoebeg West
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.38028, -8.89180
- SMR number
- GA070-079----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In a cleared field in rough grassland and rock outcrop. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1934) as an oval hollow (c. 50m by c. 30m) overlain by a field boundary at SE. No visible surface trace survives. A probable souterrain (GA070-079001-) is associated. Though OS designation is vague, the association with a 'cave' suggests that this was probably a ringfort and souterrain.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 09 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Battlefieldunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.